cell phone etiquette

if other people can talk at louder than conversational levels on their cell phone while in public places, i should be able to sing at an equal or lesser level whenever the mood strikes me. right now i am in panera working on my curriculum paper and the person sitting near me is virtually shouting into her cell phone about random, everyday things. i am listening to 'call and answer' on my ipod and wish to sing. should i?

speaking of my curriculum paper, check this out, it's my opening paragraph. should i change it?


In a successful literacy program, each learner is comfortably challenged, where they experience the feeling that there is new learning happening, they are interested in that learning; the learning is scaffolded to support student success. It is difficult to explain or define the ideal moment, it ‘feels right,’ but it also feels a little ‘intimidating.’ The intimidation factor for the teacher possibly comes: from a worry that this moment won’t; with a worry about whether this moment will occur again; with the question, “How soon will I be able to help it occur?” Similarly, a golfer after a perfect drive admires the flight, and wonders how long it’ll be till the next one. “What did I do right?” “Was it a fluke?” “How was I standing?” “Were my hands opened?” “Oh, what kind of ball was that?” And as the golfer faces different conditions on every approach, so does the teacher; and the only way to sharpen the game is through practice, analysis, reflection, and study. I attempt in this paper to define my current beliefs about the ideal literacy program through research, practice, reflection and study.

we're supposed to be defining our literacy program, and it makes me feel weird to use the word 'i' in a research paper, but i think it's better than repeating things like: teachers should, or the model teacher... i mean, it's my literacy program, my beliefs about what i do, or should or will do. i'm not trying to tell other people what to do. i don't know, but i think i'm gonna ask my professor.